Ticket carrier



Patented Oct. 25, 1898.

R. u. KING. TICKET CARRIER.

(Application filed Sept. 97, 1897.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STAT S P TENT OFFICE.

RICHARD N. KING, OF MONTREAL, CANADA.

TICKET-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 612,906, dated October 25, 1898.

Application filed September 2'7, 1897. Serial No. 653,214. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Brennan NORMAN KING,

of the city of Montreal, in the district of Montreal and Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket-Carriers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to carriers particularly adapted to carry a number of tickets such as are generally used to represent fares on street-railway systems; and the object of the invention is to provide a stronger, lighter, and more serviceable carrier than has been possible heretofore.

The invention may be said briefly to consist of the combination of parts and detail of construction hereinafter described, and particnlarly pointed out in the claims.

For full comprehension, however, of the invention reference must be had to the accompanying drawings,forminga part of this specification, in which like symbols indicate the same parts, and wherein Figure 1 is a plan view of a ticket-carrier constructed according to the preferred embodiment of my invention; Fig. 2, a transverse vertical sectional view thereof, taken on line 2 2, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a longitudinal vertical sectional View thereof, taken on line 3 3, Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a perspective View of the outer shell; Fig. 5, a perspective View of the inner shell.

I prefer to make the shell of my improved ticket-carrier in two U-shaped sections,.one of which is composed of what may be termed the top and bottom sections 5 and 6, respectively, partially cut away, as at 7, and joined together atone end by end section 8, while the other U -shaped section is composed of sides 9 and 10, joined together at one end by end section 11, which is of slightly less width than said sides, and at their other end by a cross-bar 12. A fiat resilient section 13, folded about midway of its length and having its ends bent away from one another, as at 14, is adapted to straddle the cross-bar l2 and is held in place by a pin 15,, taking through a perforation in and carried by a projection 16 upon said cross-bar.

In fitting the parts of my improved ticketcarrier together I first arrange the resilient section in place without, however, securing In order to fill the carrier, the sections should be drawn apart a short distance, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3, thus enabling the tickets to be inserted between the resilient section and the sides 5 and 6, against which latter the tickets will be normally pressed by said resilient section, while narrow spaces 18 between the under side of the ends of said sections 5 and 6 and the adjacent edges of the end section 11 allow the tickets to be ejected one at a time from the carrier by pressing upon them throughthe spaces 7.

What I claim is as follows:

1. A pocket ticket-carrier comprising a pair of U-shaped sections adapted to be fitted together to form a shell having a pair of slits in one end thereof, said slits being located transversely of the carrier and one slit being located adjacent to each side edge of said end; a cross-bar located inside and transversely of said shell and adjacent to the opposite end thereof to that which is slitted; a spring consisting of a fiat resilient section folded midway of its length and adapted to straddle and be secured to said cross-bar, the ends of said resilient section being bent away from one another, for the purpose set forth.

2. A pocket ticketcarrier consisting of a pair of U-shaped sections; one of said sections being composed of sides, 5 and 6, cut away as at 7 and joined at one end by end section 8; the other being composed of sides 9 and 10 connected at one 'end by end section 11 of less width than the sides 9 and 10, said sides being provided with grooves adjacent to the edges of their inner sides,said grooves being adapted to receive the side edges of the sides 5 and 6, the opposite ends of said sides 9 and 10 being connected by a cross-bar 12; a spring consisting of a-flat resilient section folded about midway of its length and adapted to straddle and be connected to said crossbar; the ends of said resilient section being bent away from one another, and the spaces between said resilient section being adapted to receive a number of tickets substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. A pocket ticket-carrier consisting of a pair of U-shaped sections; one of said sections being composed of sides, 5 and 6, cut away as at 7 and joined at one end by end section 8, the other being composed of sides 9 and 10 connected at one end by end section 11 of less Width than the sides 9 and 10, said sides being provided with grooves adjacent to the edges of their inner sides, said grooves being adapted to receive the side edges of the sides 5 and 6, the opposite ends of said sides 9 and 10 being connected by a cross-bar 12; a perforated projection upon said cross-bar;

a spring consisting of a flat resilient section folded about midway of its length and adapted to straddle said cross-bar, the folded portion of said spring being cut away to allow said projection to protrude therethrough; a pin adapted to take tightly into the perforation in said projection and having its ends flush with the outer surface of thesides 5 and 6 the ends of said resilient section being bent away from one another, and the spaces between said resilient section being adapted to receive a number of tickets, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

RICHARD N. KING. In presence of FRED. J. SEARS, WILL P. MCFEAT. 

